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Corporate Innovation Project

The key to scaling profitably beyond $100 billion in sales like Wal-Mart (North River Management Grade: A) is the identification and elimination of cash and capital wait states.

Low-grade organizations have too many cash and capital buffers and implode under their own weight as they grow. They cannot scale profitably.

This finding -- cash and capital wait states are destiny -- has allowed us to develop a toolbox of proprietary future navigation tools, and given us a perspective that is unmatched in the industry.

Our mission? Increasing your cash and capital velocities so you can scale profitably beyond $100 billion in sales. We make this easy for you. Start by checking out your operations on our Management Grading System online calculator. It's free!

If the Grade Calculator throws you an A, you have one of the best performing companies in your sector. You are a top predator. If you come up with a B, or worse, you have too many cash and capital wait states. You are prey.

You don't want to tell shareholders that you got North River's Management Grade of B or worse, for free, and did nothing about it!

To increase your grade quickly, sign up for North River Course Corrections, and utilize our powerful portfolio of North River Navigation Tools to improve your cash and capital velocities.

Course Corrections Overview

Course Corrections is our premium content service in which we give clients multiple course corrections every week that are based on our hard money system of calculating cash and capital velocities.

For over three decades we've helped CEOs of some of the largest companies in the world cut the cash and capital wait states that cripple profitable scalability.  This gives us an unmatched, hard-money system for navigating markets for firms of any size, in any location, worldwide.

Because we have started, built, and sold businesses to Fortune 500 players, and participate in four venture funds in Europe and the U.S., we are not easily fooled.

See what we see: Register for Course Corrections.

Current Course Corrections

Sony-Ericsson Demand Management Issues  July 24th, 2008
Tokyo – Motorola’s troubles offer a once in a decade chance to displace a large supplier, grab market share, and secure a top spot in the cell phone business. And our Corporate Innovation Project tools show you how. But Sony Ericsson is missing this excellent opportunity. Why?
Using CIP’s core diagnostic tools, the […]

Bombardier Enters the Big Leagues  July 15th, 2008
New York — As I advised that it would on October 9, 2006, Bombardier, which gets a North River Management Grade F, has decided to move into the commercial aircraft mainstream. It announced products that it hopes will core out the bread and butter of Boeing (Grade B-) and the fast falling […]

Divining The Retail Shakeout  July 14th, 2008
New York — The news that in our miserable retail climate, Wal-Mart’s U.S. same store sales were up 7% on the most recent quarter begs the question: How do you know who will benefit from the consumer spending stall and who will suffer? The chart shows a quick and simple way — […]

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